Carol Shields
American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer
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Arundhati Roy
Indian author best known for her novel The God of Small Things , which won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997 and became the best-selling book by a non-expatriate Indian author
Salman Rushdie
British-American novelist and essayist of Indian descent
John Ruskin
English writer, philosopher, art critic and polymath of the Victorian era
Witold Rybczynski
Canadian American architect, professor and writer
Rafael Sabatini
Italian-English writer of romance and adventure novels.He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: The Sea Hawk , Scaramouche , Captain Blood , and Bellarion the Fortunate .
In all, Sabatini produced 34 novels, eight short story collections, six non-fiction books, numerous uncollected short stories, and several plays.
Oliver Sacks
British neurologist, naturalist, historian of science, and writer
W. N. Roughead
Well-known Scottish lawyer and amateur criminologist, as well as an editor and essayist on “matters criminous”. He was an important early practitioner of the modern “true crime” literary genre.
J. K. Rowling
British author, philanthropist, film producer, and screenwriter
John Cowper Powys
English philosopher, lecturer, novelist, critic and poet born in Shirley, Derbyshire, where his father was vicar of the parish church in 18711879. Powys appeared with a volume of verse in 1896 and a first novel in 1915, but gained success only with his novel Wolf Solent in 1929. He has been seen as a successor to Thomas Hardy, and Wolf Solent, A Glastonbury Romance , Weymouth Sands , and Maiden Castle have been called his Wessex novels